Read 180
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Teacher: Bert McCoy Phone Number: 1-310-263-2202 X507112
Conference Period: Lunch Room: G-112
Email: mccoyb@centinela.k12.ca.us
Course Description:
English 2 Intensive is a course that blends rigorous English Language Arts Curriculum and differentiated support for all students. The University of California A-G approved course will fulfill the B requirement. With the integration of Scholastic’s READ 180 and a college preparatory curriculum, come a unique opportunity for students to develop strong literacy skills.
Textbook(s) and required materials:
Success that leads to acceptance to a four-year university requires organization and preparedness. Students are required to come to class prepared and organized each day. For this course, students will need pens and pencils, a notebook with five dividers, and a spiral notebook that snaps into the binder. The rBook text and core literary works will be provided.
Core Literary Works
Farenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
China’s Labor Pains, David Barboza
Oedipus Rex, Sophocles
Do Fame and Fortune Make you Happy?
Warriors Don’t Cry, Melba Patillo Beals
Julius Caesar, Shakespeare
Thinking Makes It So: Science Extends Reach of Prosthetic Arms, Todd A. Kuiken
About the Great Depression
Wild Boy of the Road (prose), Karen Hesse
Guests
Financial Wisdom from a New Graduate, Ron Lieber
Parrot in the Oven/Selected Works by Julia Alvarez
Grading
Classroom Conduct & Expectations
You will receive a grading rubric before each assignment is given. Your final grade in this class each term will be based on the following factors:
25% Whole Group/Small Group
25% Completion of Computer Assignments
25% Independent Reading and Quizzes
25% Daily Monday through Friday Journaling
*Please note: If you miss class, it is YOUR responsibility to see me during lunch to find out what you missed.
Our classroom has one key principle, respect. If you respect yourself, you will do your best work, arrive on time, and dress according to the UPP dress code. If you are being respectful to the teacher, you will listen attentively and participate in class. If you are being respectful to each other, then you will not interfere with another student’s learning; you will contribute to the learning of your peers. If you respect your school, you will follow all school rules. If you respect your community and the world, you will seek to give your time and talent to benefit others.
Student Honor Code
Plagiarism is using another person’s thoughts, writing, or ideas as your own. It includes using another student’s paper, information taken directly from the Internet, or information copied from books. Plagiarism in any form will not be accepted. Students who cheat or plagiarize will receive a ZERO.
**I will show you how to correctly use quotes in your writing (Research Based Writing), so you will not feel the need to plagiarize.
Learning Outcomes
1. Communicate clearly and coherently in writing and through oral presentations within a wide range of styles.
2. Read and comprehend a wide range of fiction and nonfiction in grade appropriate materials.
3. Think critically and problem solve by effectively completing challenging group and individual projects and assignments.
4. Demonstrate an understanding of the complexities of global and societal issues through reading, writing, and discussion.
5. Write clear and concise essays that support theses with evidence, convey information from primary and secondary sources, and distinguish between relative values of ideas.
Student Performance Tasks
1. Read and comprehend grade level appropriate material by analyzing features, rhetorical devices, organizational patterns, arguments, and positions advanced.
2. Understand that cultural and historical influences impact literary works.
3. Analyze the use of style and literary devices such as irony, metaphor and simile in terms of the impact of the reader. The students will identify the speaker, tone, point of view, and other literary characteristics and analyze literary works in these terms.
4. Write coherent and well-reasoned essays showing an understanding of the audience and purpose.
5. Compose multi-paragraph autobiographical, expository, analytical, reflective, persuasive, cause and effect, compare and contrast, and research essays. The students will understand and practice the stages of the writing process: pre-writing, drafting, revising, editing, and final draft presentation and publication. The students will generate and express their own ideas with clarity, coherence, conciseness, and fluency in both written and oral communication.
6. Write and speak using correct grammar, usage, mechanics, and spelling of standard English conventions.
7. Understand the meaning of new words through the use of literal and figurative language, connotation and denotation, and word origins.
8. Respond to literature in written form. Students will use appropriate citations in MLA style and support their ideas through detailed analysis of the text.
9. Develop a theme in an essay and relate it to their own lives using correct sentence structure and demonstrating an understanding of paragraph and essay formats.
10. Analyze historically significant speeches to find the rhetorical devices that make them significant.
Homework: Students are expected to read at least 30 minutes a day and complete a reading log on a classroom book. Additional, students are expected to journal every day M-F. *NOTE* Students are responsible for all assignments whether they are in class or not. All work must be turned in on the date specified. Please see me when turning in late work.
Extra Credit: Extra credit is available…Please see me during lunch.
Bert McCoy
English Teacher
Conference Period: Lunch Room: G-112
Email: mccoyb@centinela.k12.ca.us
Course Description:
English 2 Intensive is a course that blends rigorous English Language Arts Curriculum and differentiated support for all students. The University of California A-G approved course will fulfill the B requirement. With the integration of Scholastic’s READ 180 and a college preparatory curriculum, come a unique opportunity for students to develop strong literacy skills.
Textbook(s) and required materials:
Success that leads to acceptance to a four-year university requires organization and preparedness. Students are required to come to class prepared and organized each day. For this course, students will need pens and pencils, a notebook with five dividers, and a spiral notebook that snaps into the binder. The rBook text and core literary works will be provided.
Core Literary Works
Farenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
China’s Labor Pains, David Barboza
Oedipus Rex, Sophocles
Do Fame and Fortune Make you Happy?
Warriors Don’t Cry, Melba Patillo Beals
Julius Caesar, Shakespeare
Thinking Makes It So: Science Extends Reach of Prosthetic Arms, Todd A. Kuiken
About the Great Depression
Wild Boy of the Road (prose), Karen Hesse
Guests
Financial Wisdom from a New Graduate, Ron Lieber
Parrot in the Oven/Selected Works by Julia Alvarez
Grading
Classroom Conduct & Expectations
You will receive a grading rubric before each assignment is given. Your final grade in this class each term will be based on the following factors:
25% Whole Group/Small Group
25% Completion of Computer Assignments
25% Independent Reading and Quizzes
25% Daily Monday through Friday Journaling
*Please note: If you miss class, it is YOUR responsibility to see me during lunch to find out what you missed.
Our classroom has one key principle, respect. If you respect yourself, you will do your best work, arrive on time, and dress according to the UPP dress code. If you are being respectful to the teacher, you will listen attentively and participate in class. If you are being respectful to each other, then you will not interfere with another student’s learning; you will contribute to the learning of your peers. If you respect your school, you will follow all school rules. If you respect your community and the world, you will seek to give your time and talent to benefit others.
Student Honor Code
Plagiarism is using another person’s thoughts, writing, or ideas as your own. It includes using another student’s paper, information taken directly from the Internet, or information copied from books. Plagiarism in any form will not be accepted. Students who cheat or plagiarize will receive a ZERO.
**I will show you how to correctly use quotes in your writing (Research Based Writing), so you will not feel the need to plagiarize.
Learning Outcomes
1. Communicate clearly and coherently in writing and through oral presentations within a wide range of styles.
2. Read and comprehend a wide range of fiction and nonfiction in grade appropriate materials.
3. Think critically and problem solve by effectively completing challenging group and individual projects and assignments.
4. Demonstrate an understanding of the complexities of global and societal issues through reading, writing, and discussion.
5. Write clear and concise essays that support theses with evidence, convey information from primary and secondary sources, and distinguish between relative values of ideas.
Student Performance Tasks
1. Read and comprehend grade level appropriate material by analyzing features, rhetorical devices, organizational patterns, arguments, and positions advanced.
2. Understand that cultural and historical influences impact literary works.
3. Analyze the use of style and literary devices such as irony, metaphor and simile in terms of the impact of the reader. The students will identify the speaker, tone, point of view, and other literary characteristics and analyze literary works in these terms.
4. Write coherent and well-reasoned essays showing an understanding of the audience and purpose.
5. Compose multi-paragraph autobiographical, expository, analytical, reflective, persuasive, cause and effect, compare and contrast, and research essays. The students will understand and practice the stages of the writing process: pre-writing, drafting, revising, editing, and final draft presentation and publication. The students will generate and express their own ideas with clarity, coherence, conciseness, and fluency in both written and oral communication.
6. Write and speak using correct grammar, usage, mechanics, and spelling of standard English conventions.
7. Understand the meaning of new words through the use of literal and figurative language, connotation and denotation, and word origins.
8. Respond to literature in written form. Students will use appropriate citations in MLA style and support their ideas through detailed analysis of the text.
9. Develop a theme in an essay and relate it to their own lives using correct sentence structure and demonstrating an understanding of paragraph and essay formats.
10. Analyze historically significant speeches to find the rhetorical devices that make them significant.
Homework: Students are expected to read at least 30 minutes a day and complete a reading log on a classroom book. Additional, students are expected to journal every day M-F. *NOTE* Students are responsible for all assignments whether they are in class or not. All work must be turned in on the date specified. Please see me when turning in late work.
Extra Credit: Extra credit is available…Please see me during lunch.
Bert McCoy
English Teacher